(I mean "rant" in the best DennisMiller tradition, not as criticism.)

http://ccm.redhat.com/asj/managing-software-engineers/

An article on the ArsDigita Web site by PhilipGreenspun. It was mentioned in SlashDot; the comments can be found here:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/06/1448235&mode=nested

The big controversy is PhilipGreenspunOnOvertime.  --PaulChisholm